Agents, browser debugging, and deprecation of Edit Mode are all highlighted in the latest versions of the popular code editor.

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You also get to escape Microsoft telemetry tracking too.

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Container Tools lets you do a lot more.

I recently noticed this too while using UV. Setting Python-envs › Terminal: Auto Activation Type to off in the settings (or equivalently adding "python-envs.terminal.autoActivationType": "off", in ...